Unexpected Lessons in Love Bernardine Bishop John Murray ISBN-13: 978-1848547827 Karina Szczurek The retired psychotherapist Cecilia and her novelist friend Helen are courageously battling cancer. The experience of undergoing a colostomy and living with a stoma binds them. Both are

The Reactive Masande Ntshanga Random House Struik ISBN: 9781415207192 REVIEW: Lwandile Fikeni American poet and author, Langston Hughes, once wrote: “[O]ne definition of a great artist might be the creator who projects the biggest dream in terms of the

To The Islands – A Creative Writing Workbook Anne Schuster with Erica Coetzee Tiber Tree Press ISBN: 978-0-9921922-9-7 REVIEW: Karin Schimke Writing is a fairly accessible form of expression and most people with a basic education can write. They may not write

Dear Bullet By Sixolile Mbalo Jonathan Ball This is a small, devastating story about a single, enormous event, addressed by the author to the bullet lodged in her neck. In speaking to “her” bullet, Mbalo writes herself into hearing range

How We Learn – The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens Benedict Carey Macmillan ISBN: 978-0-8129-9388-2 Karin Schimke “The science of learning,” says this hugely popular New York Times writer, “is…a study of the living brain and

Easy Walks in the Cape Peninsula Mike Lundy Tafelberg ISBN: 9781920545666 Karin Schimke When a book is in its seventh edition and ninth impression, it hardly needs reviewing, but it’s worth noting this updated and revised edition of Lundy’s guide

Oh, Prettiness, you impress me Nostalgia is always just a sigh away for me so I am completely suckered by the design of the books in the Macmillan Classics series. Hard cover, ribbon book mark, familiar typeface and intermittent illustrations

Dare We Hope? Facing Our Past to Find a New Future Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Tafelberg ISBN-13: 978-0624068631 Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela’s collection of articles published between 1995 and 2014 offers a fascinating glimpse into the main issues plaguing contemporary South Africa. A professor